Nacionalinė mokslinė konferencija „Priešaušrio mokslas, kultūra ir švietimas“, skirta Lauryno Ivinskio 200-osioms gimimo metinėms

164 D. Šilobritaitė | National Scientific Conference Science, Culture and Education of the Dawn of... National Scientific Conference Science, Culture and Education of the Dawn of Laurynas Ivinskis 200th Anniversary DIaNa ŠIlOBRItaItė Institute of Lithuanian Language On November 25-26, 2010, the Lithuanian Language Institute hosted the organized by the Lithuanian Linguistics Scientific Conference Dawn of 200th anniversary of the birth of Nacionalarynas Ivinskis, which was Science and Culture, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nacionalarynas Ivinskis. The conference lasted two days. On the first day of the conference, papers were read. Most of the presentations were about L. Ivinskis and his terminological, lexicological, lexicographical and literary activities. Five speakers talked about L. Ivinskis’ terminological work, assessed the significance of his works for the Lithuanian language. Albina Auksoriūtė reviewed the Lithuanian names of minerals, plants and mushrooms created by L. Ivinskis. The speaker emphasized that L. Ivinskis often invented scientific terms himself, because he was the first to write in Lithuanian about some subjects of astronomy, geography, botany and other natural sciences. Palmira Zemlevičiūtė examined the origin and formation of one-word disease names in L. Ivinskio calendars. The speaker pointed out that already in the first calendar of L. Ivinsky there is a section on the treatment of diseases, which gives advice on how to treat infectious, surgical, traumatological, respiratory, digestive, ear, throat and other human diseases. She noted that most of the mononymous names examined are words of Lithuanian origin. Robert Stunžinas discussed the terms of construction of L. Ivinskis' calendar. The speaker said that most of the terms presented in the sections of L. Ivinskis’ practical advice are Lithuanian, mostly terminologized words of the living language, but there are also borrowed words (Slavisms, Germanisms) and hybrids. Terminology | 2010 | 17 165 Zofija Babickienė examined the derivatives of L. Ivinski’s 1861 calendar (derived and punctuated prepositions, prepositions and endings). Jonas Klimavičius talked about L. Ivinski's novelty nakana. According to the rapporteur, this new form is a derivative of Laurynas Ivinskis's limb from lit. žem. nu-kanoti 1. tr. “to beat, kill, kill”, which was taken over by Povilas Matulionis and passed on to the modern nomenclature. Ona Kažukauskaitė spoke about the relationship between L. Ivinskio lexicographical activities and lexicological studies. Tomas Petreikis reviewed the distribution of L. Ivinskis’s yearbooks in Žemaitija. In the history of distribution the speaker distinguished two essential stages: in 1846–1851 L. Ivinskis was the editor and publisher of the yearbooks, in 1855–1864 – only the editor. Danutė Petkevičiūtė spoke about the bright personality of L. Ivinskis. Based on recently discovered archive material, the speaker presented new biographical facts that revealed the personality of L. Ivinskis more deeply. The speaker also drew attention to the facts of the monograph Laurynas Ivinskis (1988), published a couple of decades ago, which need to be corrected. Genealogy and personal characteristics were discussed in detail by Antanas Ivinskis. He pointed out that the material for the genealogy of Laurynas Rokas Ivinskis, the compiler and publisher of the first Lithuanian calendars, is provided by the documents of the nobility of the relatives preserved in the Lithuanian State Archives, and the origins of this family are revealed by the directories of noble and knight families, heraldry and various encyclopedic publications prepared by Polish authors. Ilona Čiužauskaitė reviewed the literary path of L. Ivinskis. The speaker emphasized the importance of the first Lithuanian calendars, highlighted the most important features of journalism, fiction and translations. She pointed out that L. Ivinskis was probably the first in Lithuanian literature to raise questions of language culture, suggesting avoiding fancy and striving for simplicity of thought. Džiuljeta Maskuliūnienė analyzed L. Ivinskio fictional works, publicistic texts, translations and presented a summarizing model of L. Ivinskio didactic works. Four speakers have spoken about other important dawn actors and the work they have done. Danguolė Mikulėnienė provided interesting information about the famous Lithuanian dialectologist Jonas Juška. The speaker said that when describing Lithuanian dialects, J. Juška relied on his own travel impressions. She pointed out that J. Juška’s classification of Lithuanian dialects does not rely on 166 D. Šilobritaitė | National Scientific Conference Science, Culture... of the Dawn of Lithuanian Language. In her presentation, Vilija Sakalauskienė reviewed the words in Antanas Juška’s Lithuanian–Polish dictionary and concluded that A. Juška was the first to begin writing down living language words from dialects and to organize such a rich semantics of spoken language. Birutė Triškaitė discussed the manuscript recordings of Clavis Germanico–Lithvana compiler in Daniel Klein’s hymnal New hymnal books. The aim of her presentation was to prove that the transcriber of these manuscript hymns is the compiler of the German-Lithuanian dictionary Clavis Germanico–Lithvana, prepared in Lithuania Minor, whose identification is not yet agreed upon. Vilma Zubaitienė spoke about non-lexicographical sources of Georg Heinrich Ferdinand Nesselmann’s Lithuanian-German dictionary Wörterbuch der Littauischen Sprache (1851). In addition to the main sources mentioned in the preface of the dictionary, the author of the presentation referred to other sources – grammar, printed and manuscript collections of songs. On the second day of the conference, a trip was organized to memorable places of L. Ivinskis in Žemaitija – to the Museum of Curonian calendars, the Museum of the Žemaitija Diocese in Varniai and the Oginskis Cultural History Museum in Rietava. A collection of theses and the program of the conference were also published, an advertising poster was printed, and an exhibition dedicated to L. Ivinskis was organized at the Lithuanian Language Institute. Retrieved 2010-12-20. Diana Šilobritaitė Institute of Lithuanian Language P. Vileišio g. 5, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania Email: [email protected]